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Insight into freshman year college experience
As the school year comes to a close, we asked current freshman students what their experience was like at Hope…
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Hope Advocates for Sustainability partners with The Bridge
Hope Advocates for Sustainability (HAS) is an organization that works to promote sustainability at Hope College. On Wednesday, April 20,…
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Immersion Trips: A step towards a global outlook rooted in…
One of the things that differentiates Hope College from other colleges is Hope’s faith tradition. Each spring, campus ministries offer…
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Prism holds first annual Rainbow Gala
A colorful display of celebration filled the space of the Butternut Event Center on Saturday night. The first-ever Rainbow Gala presented by Prism took place as a beautiful gathering of allies and community members who entered through the wall of decorative streamers dressed to the tens. As the debut of what will be an annual…
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Elon Musk buys Twitter
On Monday afternoon, Twitter announced that they would be going through with Elon Musk’s plan to buy the company in what is possibly the largest tech takeover by a private citizen in history. His plan is to buy up all shares of the company and then take the platform back to private ownership, where he…
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Russa violates international law in Bucha
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has been ongoing for nearly two months, and the scale of atrocities continues to grow. Recently, the newly liberated town of Bucha has shown the world the brutality of the Russian invasion and has led many to accuse Russia of dangerous war crimes. On April 21, the Human Rights Watch…
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Emmanuel Macron wins French presidential election
During a tense time in Europe with the greatest conflict since World War 2 escalating in Ukraine, France’s fierce election highlighted how critical of a point Europe is at politically. As of April 24, current French president Emmanuel Macron is projected to be the clear winner against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. Macron is about…
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Campus Spotlight: Bible Pride
There is no shortage of Bible studies on Hope’s campus, many of them officially sponsored by Campus Ministries and many others run informally in small groups. Most of these Bible studies are targeted at a specific group of people: men or women, religious skeptics, members of a certain denomination, people with a certain job or…
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Seven reasons to be a humanities major
Allow me to persuade you to discard your business, accounting, biology, communications, or any other major connected, in some way, to the so-called STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) or social science fields. I propose you instead major in that which offers something of substance. Philosophy, classical studies, English, or a history major would be fine…
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A bright opening weekend for Hope College Theatre
Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the musical “Bright Star” weaves a beautiful story about love, grief, and hope in the 1920s and 1940s. Hope’s production, which opened last weekend, is directed by Daina Robins with music direction by Sarah VandenBrink and choreography by M. Linda Graham. Bright Star’s powerful cast of…
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The adaptations of Haruki Murakami’s genius
It has appeared to me that there now exists a definite media pipeline that includes the writing of Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Somewhere along the line of record collecting, being obsessed with A24 movies and collecting Criterions, one eventually reads “Norwegian Wood” and makes sure everyone within a five-mile radius knows about it. But maybe…
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Insight into freshman year college experience
As the school year comes to a close, we asked current freshman students what their experience was like at Hope College. They shared some of their experiences from their senior year of high school to now. Describe your freshman experience in three words “I would describe my freshman year experience as a task, humbling, and…
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Hope Advocates for Sustainability partners with The Bridge
Hope Advocates for Sustainability (HAS) is an organization that works to promote sustainability at Hope College. On Wednesday, April 20, HAS partnered with The Bridge, a local non-profit located in downtown Holland, for an educational event at Hope about environmental justice and fair trade. The Bridge is known for its fair trade gifts and crafts…